Motivational Quotes

Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Best Quotes about Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

13.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

14.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

15.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

16.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

17.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

18.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

20.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

21.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

22.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

23.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

25.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

26.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

28.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

29.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

30.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

31.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

33.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

34.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

35.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

37.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

39.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

41.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

42.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

43.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

44.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

45.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

47.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

48.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

49.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.